My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

A Changeling’s Lament

Chapter 19

Battle of Feather Top

“haha. You’re right. He is friendly.” Pipsqueak laughed as he swung from Oscurita’s finger. He was trying to take a nap but these ponies kept waking him up.

Dinky looked at his face and snickered. “lazy and tired would be the better word.”

“Well, I’m just glad he’s not eating me.”

“me too. Life would be pretty boring if one of my friends became lunch.” Dinky chuckled before adopting a somber expression. “hope everyone else, and mom, are okay.”

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Sw8D9RfL0

Chaotic Tension by youtuber Baschfire

The Vascillia, the Changeling flagship, fired it’s cannons down at the city walls, destroying the towers on the eastern-most side.

Different cannons aimed at the city and fired blobs of darkness. The blobs hit in major population centers and formed into Shadow Creatures. Everyone yelled in fear when they took form.

The group ran to the nearest balcony and looked out to see the ship hover over the city’s defense line and fly right in.

“well, that’s not good.” Hiccup said sarcastically.

“looks like Chrysalis is serious on conquering the entire world.” Armor muttered.

“no worries.” Zaltan said as he walked to the edge of the balcony. “we Gryphons never go down without a fight.”

“Don’t we know it?” Dash and Pinkie joked, looking directly at Gilda.

Req drew her sword and summoned her wings. “well, we can’t let them get away with this. At this rate, they’ll conquer the world by this time next week. And I don’t know about you but I’m not going to let that happen!”

“yeah. And neither are we!” Spyro said, hitting his fists together. “we’ve grown to like you all and we’re not gonna let some vengeful queen kill our friends.” all the humans nodded in agreement as they readied their weapons.

That filled the ponies with hope, knowing that their otherworldly friends are willing to risk their lives for a world that’s not their own. Celestia would be lying if she said she didn’t consider it. She didn’t want them sacrificing their own lives in a war that doesn’t concern them but she knows that they aren’t going to be swayed.

Req looked back and winked. “This is going to be easy peasy. We dealt with tougher foes then this.” she got ready to jump when Leon stopped her. “What?”

“just remember. Don’t kill any of the Changelings. There are too few of us as it is.”

“how few?” Applejack asked.

“remember the invasion 6 months ago? That was our entire population.”

“so few…” Celestia gasped. “very well. We will do all we can to keep your brethren alive.”

Leon and Friction felt relieved. Req climbed up onto the railing and turned around to face them. “Catch you all on the flip side.” she said with a wink before falling backwards. Spyro, Cynder, Bahamut, and Toothless jumped up and fell after her.

“now how do we get down that fast?” Emil asked.

Riku pretended to think before lifting him up onto the railing with him. “how else? With the express elevator.”

“you have to be kidding. We’ll become pancakes.” Sora said.

“I don’t think so.” Fox said, looking down.

Ice shot out of Spyro’s mouth and stuck to the side of the tower, he then flew around and around the tower, making a grind path for them.

“That’ll work.” Gourry quickly said.

Without another word, the humans jumped off and fell to the ground below. They landed on the trail of ice and skidded down it.

The ponies all watched from above when Dash was the one to say it. She flew up a few feet into the air and turned to her friends. “Come on. We’re not gonna let them do all the fighting for us. This is our war.” the ponies all looked at each other and nodded. This was their fight as well and they weren’t gonna let the humans do all the work. The Pegasi and Gryphons flew off the side and towards the city while everyone else headed for the exit.

Everyone but Fluttershy, that is. She just stood there, contemplating what to do. The sound of cannon fire got her attention. She looked up to the ship and steeled herself. Edge was on that ship, commanding this battle. And she had to stop him. And she could only think of one way to do it.

Half-way down the tower, Spyro broke off and spun around, firing dozens of ice trails in multiple directions, all leading to different sections of the city. The humans took advantage of this and each one jumped onto a different trail.

A Shadow Lion snarled as it cornered a defenseless earth pony in a corner.

“oh, no you don’t!” Zel exclaimed as he jumped on it’s back and stabbed his sword down though it’s head, killing it instantly. He instantly ducked when a Shadow Troll swung it’s club at him. “Fireball!” as the name suggested, a fireball shot out of his hand and hit the troll right in the head, killing it and turning it into dark wisps.

A 40-foot long Shadow Snake hissed as it wrapped around quite a lot of citizens and began to choke the life out of them. And Eris was among them.

“Hey!” Dash punched the snake in the head, flipped over, and kicked him. “Nobody hurts my daughter!”

The dazed snake shook it’s head and hissed at Dash. It lunged it’s head to bite her. Dash didn’t move but held her ground.

Twin katana blades came down though the bottom of it’s cranium, killing it and dispersing it into darkness. Lloyd jumped off it before it fully disintegrated and spun his blades around as a few Shadow Dogs came ran towards him.

The Vascillia’s cannons continued to fire at the city but only half were doing that task. The other half were busy trying to take down a stubborn Demi-Goddess and two powerful rulers of night and day.

Req cut a cannon ball in half, spun her sword around, and swung it down towards the ship, sending a sword beam it’s way. It hit against the side, leaving quite a hole in it, before it repaired itself.

“that’s not fair.” Req whined.

“it’s war. When is it ever fair?” Luna retorted as she flew past.

“Good point.”

Luna flew to one side of the ship whilst Celestia flew to the other side. They both fired their magic at the ship, hitting on the sides. Normally, it should’ve blown into pieces but since they’re dealing with dark magic, the beams shot though the other side and hit the other’s sister.

Both fell to the ground, wings crippled by each other. Req flew down after them. She grabbed Celestia’s unconscious body then used the Bind spell on Luna, bringing the Alicorn to her.

They crashed into a fountain, sending a small splash into the sky. Req surfaced and put the princess’s on the edge.

“that could’ve gone better.” Req moaned. She blew her wet hair out of her face and coughed.

The cannons continued to fire at the town, either destroying buildings or adding new Shadow Creatures to the battle.

Edge stood at the helm and looked down at the battle. He reached into his armor and pulled out the necklace. He felt uneasy doing this but was unsure why. He felt guilty for doing this but just doesn’t know why. He didn’t have to wonder why for long as his answer’s were flying towards the ship.

“don’t fire at that yellow Pegasus. She’s mine.” he said with gusto to the fire crew. They reluctantly followed his orders and didn’t shot at her. The Pegasus landed on the deck and stared him down.

“I was hoping you would arrive. Fluttershy.”

End song.

Cadence pushed a mine cart down into the mines, still being forced to do her job of passing out food and water. She noticed that Jax and Dinky were missing. “if they find out, nobodies’ going to come out happy.” she muttered. And there’s only so much she can do to keep everyone happy in this scenario.

A sharp pain shot though her stomach, causing her to keel over and hold her midsection. She was hoping she had more time but feels like she doesn’t.

“Edge! Please, stop this!” Fluttershy asked with tear-filled eyes.

Images began to flood though his mind again, something he’s starting to get really tired of. He shook his head and got rid of them. “Listen. The reason I’m here is because I want answers. You and that dragon back at Maredrid said I was your friend. I keep getting these images in my head about some crimson pony that feels like me. And to top it off…” he pulled out the necklace for her to see. “… I found this lying in the snow and when I picked it up, I heard a song. Tell me, what is going on!?!”

Fluttershy was stunned that he still had the necklace she gave him for Hearth’s Warming Eve, even though he doesn’t remember it. “Edge… your friends told me that… you were Purged.”

Purged? Him? Impossible. He’s the most loyal Changeling in Chrysalis’ army. There’s no way he could be purged. But… that’s the only way that can explain everything; the images, the song, reason why he got a bit nervous when he was around or thought about that Pegasus. It’s possible that…

A loud and thundering boom stopped his train of thought as they both looked up.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz3OyJXLs1o

End of the Road - Assassin’s Creed Revelations Unreleased OST

0:00.

Dark clouds rumbled far above the city, swirling into one spot not far beneath it. The clouds began to take shape as it did last time.

“oh crap.” Bahamut gulped.

“not him again.” Shadow said in worry.

“what in the world is that?” Zaltan gasped.

“nothing pretty.” a soaked and injured Celestia said as she limped over.

“last time we saw this, it turned Maredrid into a crater.” Req said.

Zaltan gulped out of fear. “what was it?”

“pretty powerful monster.”

Orochi smiled from the mountain top as the monster took form.

“yes. Rise from the abyss once more and destroy our enemies!” Tenebrae laughed. “Come, King of the Monsters!”

The clouds took on organic qualities and fell from the sky to the swamp below. It landed with a big boom, causing bit of a earthquake and sending a lot of water into the sky. Clouds swirled out of the crash site and into the air.

“this isn’t going to end well.” Applejack gulped.

0:40.

Dark red eyes shone out of the water and smoke before they all dispersed.

Godzilla roared to the sky as loud as he could, signaling his return.

Back on the mountain, Orochi was practically giddy. “Yes. Go, Godzilla. Kill, destroy. Eradicate them all! HAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

“how do we beat that thing?” Gilda shakingly asked.

Req summoned her wings. “I don’t think we can.”

1:12.

Godzilla heard and Godzilla obeyed. He powered up and fired his heatbeam right for the tower.

The beam was blocked by a joint barrier by Req, Zel, Riku, Spyro. A shock slivered up the heat beam and into Godzilla’s mouth but nobody noticed. Unfortunately, the king was too strong for them all and the beam, although weakened, still broke though, sending the four of them rolling and spinning away in different directions.

The beam hit the tower but wasn’t as strong as before. It brushed against the side, taking out a large chunk of the tower but not destroying it completely or to where it’s so damaged on one side, it fell down the other.

Godzilla snorted angrily and powered up his heat beam yet again.

1:28.

When Godzilla fired his heat beam, something unexpected happened.

His back flickered like a light bulb and his heat beam came out all cut up and in three’s, like a three-shot rifle. One of the shots shot over the city and into the river while the other two hit harmlessly outside of town.

Everyone, even Godzilla himself, was surprised by that change of events.

“Well, so much for your new toy, Tenebrae.” Fulmen snickered.

“Shut up. He’s still unstoppable.”

Godzilla thought of a way he could use this to his advantage. He powered up his new heat beam again and fired, this time aiming very carefully. The shots hit right in the town itself, causing block-sized explosions.

1:52.

Fluttershy watched in horror from the ship as the city beneath them burned. She turned to Edge, who was just as dumbstruck as she was.

“Edge, stop him!” she pleaded.

“what makes you think I’m controlling him? I was with you and that dragon when he appeared at Maredrid, remember? So this isn’t my fault.”

Godzilla roared to the sky as lightning crashed down around him.

2:17. End Song.

Jax walked though the town, trying to find Dinky and Pip. They always went missing every day and at the same time. Something bugged her about that and she had to find out. She rounded a corner and found the tired beast with Dinky and Pipsqueak in his hand. Initially, she got protective.

“LET THEM GO!” Jax yelled. That got the attention of the trio but also the attention of several Changeling guards. She ran over to the monster who snarled back at her.

“Wait!” Dinky jumped off and got in Jax’s way. “he’s not dangerous.”

“Not dangerous? He stranded me and my friends, helped the bad guy take over the world, and probably the biggest one of all, he’s making me go though pure hell.”

“he’s not a bad guy. He’s just being used and misunderstood.”

“Misunderstood!?” the Changelings rounded the corner to see the human and filly argue. “He’s a monster! Monster’s aren’t misunderstood! They have no feelings and they are focused on one thing and one thing only; who’s gonna be lunch!”

“He is not like that! He let me live when I stumbled across him.”

“he was probably full! Trust me, kid! That thing is only thinking about how to have you; with fries or a salad?!”

Dinky angrily frowned at Jax. Super mad at her stubbornness, but also that Jax may be acting out because of her hatred for the monster for stranding her on what she calls ‘hell’. “sometimes… I wonder who the real monster is; Oscurita. Or you.”

Dinky stormed off, walking past Jax and the surprised Changelings. They wanted nothing to do with this. Pip gradually followed after Dinky and past the Changelings. Jax stood there, completely dumbstruck. She’s not a monster. That… thing was the monster. She was right and she knows it. She angrily looked up at Oscurita who angrily looked back at her. She just scoffed and walked off. Oscurita snorted and went back to sleep. Thanks to that annoying human, he had lost the only pony willing to come even remotely close to him. First chance he get’s, he’s gonna do what that human suggested and have Jax with a side of fries and a salad.

Godzilla loudly roared as the citizens in the town below screamed and ran for their lives.

“what do we do!?” Sweetie Belle whined, cowering with her friends under a picnic table.

Zaltan thought for a moment and only had one painful conclusion to go with. “I’m afraid we’re gonna have to leave Feather Top.”

“What!?” the Princess’ exclaimed.

“there’s no way we can beat such a monstrosity. There’s just no way.”

“no.”

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0DE5zyRI6U

Unfinished Battle - Xenoblade Chronicles OST

Req walked past them, sword in hand and ready to go. “no more running. I ran when I found out who I was. I ran from my brother. But I am not gonna let my friends run themselves into oblivion!”

“Requiem…” Twilight softly said.

“me and my friends have been able to take down gods before. This is just a giant lizard that breath‘s fire with a tendency of being indestructible. Nothing more then a overgrown dragon.” Ash said as he walked up next to her.

“you’re not backing down from this, are you?” Luna asked in a mutter.

“Yeah. Remember, we are gonna fight for you, even if this isn’t our world.” Spyro said as he walked up. “just because we’re from different planets doesn’t mean we can’t help out, right?” he asked with a wink.

“right.” Celestia said with a gasp. They really meant what they said.

Godzilla snarled and fired his heat beam. Just like before, it broke into three shots and hit separate parts of the city. One such beam headed for them.

Req glowed for a moment. Her blade extended and burst into light. Req swung it with all her might and hit the beam back to it’s sender. It hit Godzilla in the chest, making him stagger.

“What?” Tenebrae gasped, completely caught off guard that a measly human could reflect a powerful attack.

“So much for your little plan, Tenebrae.” Glacies said in his cold tone.

“Grr. Just shut up! He can still win this.” Tenebrae snarled, returning his attention to the fight.

Godzilla roared as he powered up his heat beam again as the groups premiere ice users ran to his feet.

“you have a plan for this?” Amelia asked, staying back far enough not to be crushed.

“Well, Jax would probably use Blizzard.” Zel said.

“So…” Spyro came up with a good idea.

Fox came up with the same idea and spun his staff to his shoulder, a small but powerful puff of ice coming out of it when it hit. “we freeze his feet.”

The king snarled as he tried to swat flies away from his face.

Req dodged one such swipe and fired a beam out of her blade and into his cheek. It hit, cutting deep enough to draw blood.

“at least we know he’s not invulnerable.” Hiccup remarked.

“just focus on dodging.” Satoshi said as his little brick deally morphed into a rocket launcher. “leave the fighting to me.” he aimed the rocket and fired, hitting the wound and making it explode.

The King roared in pain then tried to bite down on Toothless. Thank goodness that Night Fury’s are fast.

Ash fired at the king from the ground with his pistols and Sora from her bow. If anything, they can distract Godzilla long enough for someone to come up with a plan.

“you know that won’t do anything, right?” Spike asked.

“We know. Doesn’t hurt to try, right?” Ash replied.

Lloyd, Emil, and Riku ran up the kings tail, dragging their blades behind them, creating a path of blood. Godzilla swung his tail back and forth, trying to swing them off, which he did.

They fell 100 feet to the ground, not screaming. Riku tried to think of a way out of this when he remembered he was still wearing the outfit he had on The Grid. So, hopefully… he reached into his pocket and pulled out a baton.

“oh, please let this thing work.” he hoped as he activated it. The baton separated and morphed into a Light Cycle just like in the movie and show. “Yes!” he happily exclaimed. He got behind the wheel and revved it up.

Using a Gravity spell, he pulled Emil and Lloyd over to him, revved up the engine, and landed safely on the ground, with a big bounce I might add.

“Whoa! How’d you do this?” Lloyd said in great exclaim.

“don’t know the how. Just be thankful for the why.” He said back to them as he drove off.

Cannons fired from the tower, all directed at Godzilla. The Changelings had all but retreated, knowing that with him around, this city is toast.

Fluttershy just watched from the ship, not able to move. Meanwhile, more images flashed though Edge’s head, this time of him protecting him. And his heart was telling him to save her as well.

A heat beam shot towards the ship. As if by instinct, Edge pushed Fluttershy off the ship just before the beam hit the bow.

Fluttershy tumbled though the air but was able to regain herself to see the ship take the hit but still fly. Her heart was a bit joyous by what had happened.

“Edge… you are still in there… right?” she hopefully asked as she held her heart.

A bruised Edge pulled himself up and looked over the side to see that Fluttershy was alright. Grateful that she wasn't hurt, for some reason, Edge ordered them to retreat.

“Pull back to the river!” he announced. “let the beast finish this.” he looked back over and softly spoke to himself. “Don’t make me regret this. Fluttershy.”

Req yelled as she fell into the fountain near the princess’s. she pulled herself and spit out water. “Thanks for the help. Really appreciate it.” she groaned.

“Well, what can we do against a monster like that!?” Dash exclaimed, gesturing to the towering behemoth.

She had a point. There was little these ponies and gryphons could do against such a beast. Unless… “wait. Twilight. You said you were cutting back on magic for Starlight, right?”

“Yeah…” Twi reluctantly replied, not really sure what she’s talking about.

“did you use any magic this month?”

“Other then getting us out of those caves, no.”

“Great. Armor, Rarity. How good are you with ice spells?”

“ice spells?” they both replied in confusion.

“Just what are you getting at, Req?” Lyra and Vinyl asked.

Req looked at them and snickered.

Spyro, Fox, Zel, and Amelia had just frozen Godzilla’s feet in place, making him unable to move, when Fox was suddenly picked up by Zaltan. The dragon and magicians noticed it and flew after them.

“what’s going on?” Spyro asked, flying alongside them.

“we got a plan.” Zaltan said with a snicker.

The Changelings watched from the ship as dozens upon dozens of spots filled the skies. “What in the world…?” Edge muttered.

Chrysalis watched this from the throne room via a crystal and snarled. “No!”

The Prisoners watched from a crystal in the mines, each taken by surprise by the sheer numbers. Even Jax and Cadence were taken aback.

“Whoa!” Pip exclaimed in surprise.

A unknown black equine watched from a faraway hill.

“well… seems that the various species can come together after all.” he said with a deep and sinister voice. “Looks like Orochi was wrong after all.” he said before disappearing in dark flame.

Orochi, or rather Tenebrae, snarled at the sight. “NO!” he jumped up and down like a bratty child. “NO NO NO NO NO NO!”

Every flier in the Gryphon Kingdom capital took to the air; Gryphon, Pegasi, G.K.(Gryphon Kingdom) Changelings, and Dragons. Each one carrying a Unicorn, each one with a glowing horn.

Godzilla took notice of them and roared loudly at them. His jaw was clamped shut by a well placed Bind, leaving only a small portion of his mouth open but not enough to where he can fire his beam.

Req flew past Luna, who was carrying Twilight, and stopped right in front of everyone. “Everyone, concentrate on a Ice Spell! We’re gonna freeze this guy from the inside out!”

All the Unicorns nodded and concentrated with all their might on a Ice Spell. The other-worldly magicians thought of the strongest ice attack they could think of.

Godzilla tried to rip the spell off his mouth but Req had it on tight. There was no way he was going to get it off.

Small blue beams of light descended from the horns of the unicorns and into Req’s blade, which she held above her head. “(we only have one shot at this. So we better make this count!)”

The spells reached their apex and were ready to fire. Req sensed this and bellowed “BLIZZARD!” as she thrust her blade to the monster and fired a beam of pure ice to the king. Ice spells of various types shot from the Unicorns and Magicians and joined with hers, making it more powerful.

Godzilla got the spell off and fired his heat beam, forgetting that it had somehow turned into a three-shot attack. The shots all flew past the ice, past the fliers, and past the Vascillia, exploding harmlessly in thin air.

The beam shot into Godzilla’s mouth and right down his throat, reaching his heart and freezing it. The ice expanded out of it and went down every vein in his body.

Godzilla shrieked in pain, unable to do anything of what was going on inside of him. The beam continued to shot into his mouth, making it even more painful.

Ice extended out of every part of his body, including his eyes and nails, until he was nothing but a frozen dead statue.”

End Song.

Chrysalis yelled in anger she slammed the crystal into the floor. “Dammit! Even that arrogant jerk can’t kill them!”

The doors opened and a soldeir walked in. “Your majesty, w--”

“WHAT!?!” Chrysalis yelled. “What could be so important that you had to disturb me!?!”

The Changeling, though dumb-struck by his queen’s outburst, kept his same posture. “we have a development with Oscurita. We know why he’s behaving the way he is.”

Tenebrae yelled as loud as he could over the fact that Godzilla lost. “Stupid, mother bucking, self-centered…” in his anger, he tore up Godzilla’s card. “I wash my hands with this!”

Aqua sighed. “you do know you could’ve used that card again on another world in a few days, right?”

Tenebrae, realizing his mistakes, gathered up the shards and tried to put them together to no avail.

“idiot.” Ignis muttered.

“I vote we get out of here before he does something stupid.” Ventus voted.

“Agreed.” Glacies said. A portal of dark fire opened up behind them and he walked into it.

Tenebrae yelled yet again, this time in anger towards one certain human. “ARGH! Oh, I’m gonna get that Requiem if it’s that last thing I do!”

the ice spell stopped and everyone panted as they looked at what they did; The King forever frozen in a statue of death.

Fluttershy flew up beside Req and lamentably looked at it. “he may have been a creature of shadow… but I still feel sorry for him.”

“me too.” Req said. She powered up her sword and sent a sword beam towards the monster. It hit, shattering the kind into a million pieces. Wisps of darkness rose from the pieces and dissipated in the air.

“I didn’t think Oscurita could make monsters like that.” Celestia gasped as she flew down beside her.

Req was going to agree but didn’t. Oscurita couldn’t have been able to make that thing. For starters, he hasn’t even seen a Godzilla movie. How could he have know what he looked like? Secondly, Oscurita had to be there to make the Shadow Creatures and the ones that came with the Changelings were made before hand. And thirdly, is Oscurita was on site, why didn’t he attack them himself?

She had a bad feeling about all this.